CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Four: Chief Petty Officer Telegrapher T. Swiney, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.109732 C.P.O. Tel.,
H.M.S. Sultan)
Four: Petty Officer J. Sutherland, Royal Naval Reserve
1914-15 STAR (1904/C J. Sutherland L. Smn. RNR Replacement); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (1904C L.S., R.N.R.);
Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (C.1904 P.O., R.N.R.)
Pair: Shipwright 2nd Class G. A. Brown, Royal Navy
BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (M.35847 B. Shpt., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (M.35847
Shpt. 2 H.M.S./ Dorsetshire) good very fine (10) £100-140
Medals to ‘Swiney’ with note indicating he was possibly awarded another ‘star’.
Medals to Sutherland with original card forwarding box for the replacement 1914-15 Star, issued in July 1974; together with associated
letters.
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Four: Serjeant J. Suttie, Scots Guards
1939-45STAR;DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (2696823 Sjt., S.
G.) mounted court style as worn with ribbon for ‘France and Germany Star’, very fine (4) £50-70
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Family group:
Three: Private Thomas Foxton, Yorkshire Regiment
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, all unnamed
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Brunei (23821615 Gnr. J. M. Foxton,
RA) extremely fine (4) £260-300
4397412 Private Thomas Foxton, 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Green
Howards), died of disease on 24 August 1941, aged 32 years. He was buried in
the Nicosia War Cemetery. He was the son of George and Rosemary Foxton, of
Sherburn, Malton, Yorkshire. With named condolence slip and card forwarding
box, addressed to ‘Mr G. Foxton, 15 Springfield Terrace, Sherburn, Malton,
Yorks.’
Medal to Gunner J. M. Foxton, Royal Artillery, with card box of issue and named
condolence slip.
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Three: Warrant Officer C. E. Wordsworth, Royal Air Force, a long served Observer in Blenheims of the Desert Air
Force who was killed on active service in August 1942
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, extremely fine (3) £250-300
Charles Edward Wordsworth commenced training as an Observer at North Coates in June 1936 and was posted to No. 40 Squadron in
October of the same year. Having then served in 62 Squadron from April 1937 to May 1938, in which unit he was awarded his
Observer’s Badge, he was posted to 45 Squadron.
The outbreak of hostilities in September 1939 found 45 Squadron flying Blenheims out of Fuka, from which base - and others in Egypt
and Libya - the Squadron was heavily engaged in the Western Desert, East Africa and Syria campaigns, Wordsworth being credited
with over 70 operational sorties in the period leading up to the end of July 1941, having first flown operationally in June 1940. It was,
however, in September of the latter year that 45’s aircrew really commenced full time operations, Wordsworth as a member of Flight
Lieutenant Troughton-Smith’ crew - thus a string of raids on Gura in which Italian CR. 42s were regularly encountered, so, too, heavy
A.A. fire (45’s Operations Record Book refers).
In November 1940, Wordsworth joined Flying Officers Haines’ crew, their first mission being a solo attack on railway buildings at
Keren on the 14th. In the following month, the Squadron ordered to a new base in support of the Western Desert operations, raids on
Bardia and Gambut being the order of the day, once more in the face of prowling enemy aircraft - in strikes against Gambut in mid-
December, Wordsworth’s Blenheim was twice subjected to attacks by a CR. 42s. Early in the new year the Squadron turned its
attention to Tobruk, where heavy A.A. fire and “flaming onions” quickly gained respect, and elsewhere as targets extended to enemy
troop concentrations and transport, Wordsworth completing many such sorties in the period leading up to June, when he transferred to
Wing Commander J. O. Willis’ crew. With the latter he quickly participated in strikes against Fort Suweida and enemy barracks at
Palmyra, but his most memorable sortie was undoubtedly an attack on an enemy ammunition dump at Hamana on 10 July - jumped by
Vichy fighters, three of 45’s Blenheims were quickly shot down, and but for the arrival of some Tomahawks the death toll would have
been far greater.
Wordsworth completed his operational tour in the same month, and appears to have been employed on ground duties in 258 and 269
Wings prior to his return to the U.K. in April 1942. The cause of his demise on 21 August 1942 remains unknown, his Flying Log Book
simply stating ‘Killed on Active Service’.
Sold with the recipient’s original R.A.F. Flying Log Books (2), covering the periods June 1936 to January 1940, and February 1940 to
April 1942, the final entry immediately followed by ‘Killed in Active Service 21.8.42’ statement, bound as one volume in light green
fabric, together with related R.A.F. Records Office forwarding letter to next of kin, and wartime silk evader’s maps of the North African
theatre of war (2).
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